Databases

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A to Z Alphabetical List of Electronic Journals Collection: Start here to find out which of our CU databases carries full text articles from a specific journal title. Search for journals by keyword, title, or subject.
Academic OneFile (Gale): A good starting point for most research. Has access to over 12,000 journals. Covers the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more.
Academic Search Complete (EbscoHost): Full text coverage for nearly 3,100 multi-disciplinary scholarly journals. Full text dates from 1975 in some cases.
African American Music (Alexander Street Press - Streaming Audio): Documents the history of African American music and has rblues, jazz and sacred music recordings from the first half of the 20th Century
African American Music Reference (Alexander Street Press ): Covers blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. It contains biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies
Alt HealthWatch (EbscoHost)
American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals: Find full text, peer-reviewed articles in the chemical sciences. Click a journal title to search within that publication or use the search box at the top of the page to search across all journal titles.
American History in Video (Alexander Street Press): Presents American History throughcommercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
Article First (FirstSearch I): Contains citations for items in the table of contents of over 12,000 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, sciences, technology and popular culture. Coverage dates from 1990-present.
ARTstor: Digital collection of nearly one million images of art and architecture from major museums and collections around the world. Browsers IE 7.0+, Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+ are supported.
ATLA Religion & Serials (EbscoHost): Index to journal articles in over 600 journals, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion back to 1949. Produced by the American Theological Library Association.
Audio Drama: The LA Theatre Works Collection (Alexander Street Press): more than 300 important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the Los Angeles radio theatre company
Biology and Science Journals (ProQuest): Click next to ProQuest Science Journals and ProQuest Biology Journals to search these full-text databases in the sciences.
Business & Company Resource Center (Gale): Information on global business, business case studies, competitive intelligence, and career and investment opportunities.
Business Economics and Theory (Gale): Access to academic journals and magazines for researchers who are: starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, and more.
Business News - Regional: 75 full text business newspapers from across the United States. Coverage varies, but dates range from 1993 to the present.
Business Resource Center for Small Businesses (Gale): Covers areas for starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax information. Also includes sample business plans, and FAQs answered.
Business Source Premier (EbscoHost): Full text coverage of 3,300 business journals as far back as 1922.
Business Source Premier--Profiles & Reports (EbscoHost)
Cambridge Histories Online: Covers 14 subject areas, including General History, Regional History, Literary Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies of books published after 1960.
Child Abuse and Neglect Database: Abstracts from the National Clearinghouse of Child Abuse & Neglect Information covering 1965-present
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database: More than 260,000 searchable full text reviews of children's books.
CINAHL: Index to over 1,700 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, dating back to 1982.
Classical Music Reference Library (Alexander Street Press): Covers all classical genres, spanning music from the Medieval period to the 21st century, including definitions of musical terms and biographical information on the major classical composers and artists.
Classical Scores Library (Alexander Street Press): Covers collection includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions
Clinical Pharmacology (EbscoHost): Up-to-date information on all U.S. prescription drugs, supplements, and investigational drugs.
Communications and Mass Media Collection (Gale): Articles in communications & broadcasting, including graphic arts, sports commentary, journalism, advertising, photography and public relations.
Computer Source (EbscoHost)
Credo Reference (formerly xreferplus): Full text searchable dictionaries in the fields of art, history, literature, religion, foreign languages, science, social sciences and medicine.
Criminal Justice Collection (Gale): Access to over 4 million articles in law & law enforcement, Homeland Security, forensic science, sociology and social policy and public administration.
EBSCOhost Databases: Indexing, abstracts and full text of selected titles from eighteen databases on academic, business, education, newspapers, psychology, K-12 level and health topics.
Education Fulltext (Wilson): Comprehensive coverage of an international range of over 320 English-language education periodicals, monographs and yearbooks.
Education Journals (ProQuest): Full text of several hundred education journals, and abstracts of hundreds more. Select "ProQuest Education Journals" to search.
Education Research Complete (EbscoHost): Over 500 full text education journals. Includes Professional Development Collection.
Educators Reference Complete (Gale): Covers resources on issues related to administration, funding and policy in education from preschool to college. It includes bilingual studies, health, technology and testing.
Environmental Studies and Policy Collection (Gale): Journal articles and reference content for environmentalists, policy makers, corporate researchers, educators, students, geologists, engineers.
ERIC (EbscoHost): Abstracts and limited full text version of ERIC education research database.
ERIC E*Subscribe: Full text of most ERIC documents published since 1996.
ERIC Thesaurus of Descriptors: An online version of the official ERIC Thesaurus
Facts on File: Full text articles on issues and controversies, current and archived news, and today's science. Includes world almanac and encyclopedia.
Fine Arts and Music Collection (Gale): Information on hundreds of arts-related topics from...Hip Hop to Handel, film movements and trends, elementary music education, advanced music theory, art therapy and architectural trends and movements.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EbscoHost): Over 25,000 full text entries; includes images and biographies.
Global Road Warrior: Covers culture, communications, travel, business, and maps for 175 countries and territories.
GPO (FirstSearch I): Citations and some full text links to government documents published from 1976-present.
GPO Access: A portal to federal government information resources for current legislation, regulations, and judicial information.
GreenFILE (EbscoHost): Scholarly and general interest journal articles, governement documents and reports on human affects on the environment.
Grove Music Online: Includes: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians;New Grove Dictionary of Jazz; Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music with links to Naxos Music Library.
Health & Nursing Resource Center (Gale): Provides sample care plans, multimedia content of human anatomy, reference and text books, citations to journals in the field.
Health & Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module (Gale): Articles from health and medical journals, newsletters, reference resources, trusted websites, and streaming videos from medical experts.
Health and Nursing Collection (Gale): Articles on specialized care, treatment and management in patient care, and health care policies and records management.
Health Reference Center Academic (Gale): Nursing and allied health journals, newspapers, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources with reference works and health-related multimedia.
Health Source Nursing/Academic & Consumer Edition (EbscoHost): Full text articles from nursing journals and consumer health journals.
History Reference Center: Full text articles from over 50 history journals. Includes photographs, maps, and contents of 400 history reference books.
JSTOR: Fulltext archive of over 1100 scholarly journals of major importance in many fields. Most titles are available from their first issue up to 2-5 years ago.
Kraus Curriculum Development Library: Database of curricula, frameworks, and standards brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.
Legal Collection (EbscoHost)
Legal Trac (Gale): Provides full-text coverage of major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals
LexisNexis Academic Universe: A 95% full text resource for news, business, financial, medical & legal information. Includes 20 yr. archive of the New York Times newspaper
Library Literature & Information Science Fulltext (Wilson): Fulltext coverage of over 100 journals in the field of librarianship.
LION (Literature Online): Full text articles and reference works on literature.
Master File Premier (EbscoHost): Full text of nearly 2,000 journals. Includes general reference, current affairs, health, biographies, maps and images.
Medline (First Search 1): Citations and abstracts to nearly 10,000 publications in medicine, nursing, and dentistry. Coverage from 1965 to present.
MedlinePlus
Military & Government Collection (EbscoHost)
MLA Bibliography (EbscoHost): Abstracts of articles focusing on folklore, literature, languages and linguistics covering 1963 to present.
Naxos Music Library: World’s largest Classical music listening service including over 296,000 tracks of music and extensive background information such as complete liner notes.
Newspaper Source (EbscoHost): Selected full text of over 180 U.S. and international newspapers. Abstracts for many other national newspapers.
Newsstand (Gale): Provides access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers and leading international newspapers.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale): Provides comprehensive coverage of hundreds of subjects ranging from ongoing controversies to today's hot-button issues
Oregonian (through Lexis Nexis Academic): Complete full text from 1988 to present.
Other EbscoHost Databases: Selection of databases with focus on education, health, agriculture, Spanish language medical research journals, and other topics.
Ovid Online: Journals@Ovid links to the Table of Contents, Bibliographic citations, Abstracts, and references for all the titles in Ovid Online. YourJournals@Ovid links to the full text nursing journals to which Concordia University subscribes.
Oxford English Dictionary: Comprehensive dictionary from the english speaking world that defines the word and traces the word back to its origins.
Oxford English Dictionary Quotations: Traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
Oxford Reference Online: A database of reference dictionaries in the arts, sciences, religion, business, and foreign languages.
PsycArticles (EbscoHost): Full text articles from 42 psychology journals, and citations and summaries of over 1,700 journals and books, book chapters, dissertations and technical reports in the field of Psychology.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EbscoHost): A comprehensive database concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
Psychology Collection (Gale): Over 3 million articles on topics in research, clinical psychology, case studies, and more.
PubMed: U.S. National Library of Medicine. Contains over 16 million citations and full text from life science journals back to the 1950s.
Reference Library (Gale): Access to electronic reference titles — eBooks — in health, science, art, history, biography, etc.
Religion and Philosophy Collection (EbscoHost): Articles from over 300 journals on world religions, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Sage Journals Online: More than 500 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. Full Text is available for all articles published from 1999 to current.
Science & Medical Art (SMART) Image Database: A collection of 13,000+ high quality illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other health science topics.
SocINDEX Full Text: Comprehensive coverage of sociology, including social psychology, substance abuse, sociological theory, criminology, marriage & family, racial & gender studies, religion, social development and more.
Sports Business Database: Market research data on sports, sporting goods, and sports participation.
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online (Alexandar Street Press): Covers music research of all the world's peoples. Includes essays and images.
Theater in Video (Alexander Street Press - Streaming Video): Contains documentaries and definitive performances of the world's leading plays.
TOPICsearch (EbscoHost): Thousands of full text articles dealing with current events. Useful for classroom teachers.
Vocational and Career Collection (EbscoHost)
Wall Street Journal: Click "View Titles" to see papers by date. Covers 1984 to present. The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as national and global general news.
World Almanac (FirstSearch 1): Full text of The World Almanac and Book of Facts; The World Almanac of the U.S.; The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and the World Almanac for Kids.
World Shakespeare Bibliography: Provides annotated entries of scholarly and popular Shakespeare-related works (books, articles, reviews, theatrical productions, etc.), published or produced worldwide from 1960 to the present. The information is updated quarterly.
WorldCat: WorldCat is the world's most comprehensive bibliography, with over 50 million records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th century from over 40,000 libraries all over the world
WorldCat - mobile: To download the app to search WorldCat from your Blackberry, Palm OS, iPhone, Nokia Windows Mobile 5.0, MIDP 2.0. Tutorials at: http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/content/mobile/

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